Begourat ( fl. 1603) was a chief of the Montagnais Indians whose summer home was at

Tadoussac Tadoussac () is a village in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saguenay and Saint Lawrence rivers. The indigenous Innu call the place ''Totouskak'' (plural for ''totouswk'' or ''totochak'') meaning "bosom", probably in reference to the t ...

. It was at Tadoussac that summer that Begourat met with

François Gravé Du Pont François Gravé (Saint-Malo, November 1560 – 1629 or soon after), said ''Du Pont'' (or ''Le Pont'', ''Pontgravé''...), was a Breton navigator (captain on the sea and on the "Big River of Canada"), an early fur trader and explorer in the N ...

and

Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain (; Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a Fre ...

. He was preparing to lead a war-party against the Iroquois in the

Richelieu River The Richelieu River () is a river of Quebec, Canada, and a major right-bank tributary of the St. Lawrence River. It rises at Lake Champlain, from which it flows northward through Quebec and empties into the St. Lawrence. It was formerly kno ...

area. Champlain detailed the pre-raid events in his journals. At the time of the departure of the French, Begourat gave his son to Gravé Du Pont to take to France.

References

* Jury, Elsie McLoed 1966 Begourat in ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, Year of publication: 1966, revised edition: 1979 * Indigenous leaders in Quebec Pre-Confederation Quebec people 17th-century politicians 17th-century indigenous people of the Americas {{Canada-bio-stub